Holidays 2006, Part 1: New York City
Jan. 3rd, 2007 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichelefWe were once again in NYC at my aunt's place on the Upper West Side... I made good use of the fact that my child is a total parrot and got her to declare "Em a commie!" We generally hung out, walked in the park and around the neighborhood. We went to Natural History with hsib and LauraZ on Saturday afternoon (the 23rd). TRex loved them, of course, and the dinosaurs at the museum.
We also saw Grey Gardens, which I still can't decide what I think about. Christine Ebersoll was mind-blowingly amazing (as was Mary Louise Wilson) but... the story just didn't work for me.
Christmas afternoon we took TRex downtown to see the decorated windows - Saks and Lord & Taylor. Saks was this wonderful winter fantasyland thing with a heartwarming story that I didn't read... I was busy taking pictures. TRex really liked that one. By the time we got to L&T it was raining - they had a cute Victorian-themed thing that was charming but not so appealing to the 2-year-old. And I have to remember that if you want to catch a train to the Upper West Side you have to go to Port Authority, not Times Square (or go to Times Square and then walk underground to Port Authority).
We also saw Grey Gardens, which I still can't decide what I think about. Christine Ebersoll was mind-blowingly amazing (as was Mary Louise Wilson) but... the story just didn't work for me.
The missing 30 or so years between Act I and Act II were just too much... We don't know HOW Edie went bat-shit insane. I didn't like some of the dialogue in the beginning of the second act, either, particularly in Edie's monologues - though some of this may be due to the weirdness of her unexplained insanity. The moment... minutes at the end when Edie's about to leave I almost thought it would have been an interesting ending to not have her go back into the house... just leave it even more hanging and open-ended than it was. Fade to black on her standing there trying to decide...
Matt Cavenaugh was cute, but his Boston accent was atrocious - way too much like Mayor Quimby. I liked him much better in the second act as Jerry. The music generally didn't do it for me, but I loved "Another Winter in a Summer Town". All in all, though, what I really want now is to actually see the documentary.Christmas afternoon we took TRex downtown to see the decorated windows - Saks and Lord & Taylor. Saks was this wonderful winter fantasyland thing with a heartwarming story that I didn't read... I was busy taking pictures. TRex really liked that one. By the time we got to L&T it was raining - they had a cute Victorian-themed thing that was charming but not so appealing to the 2-year-old. And I have to remember that if you want to catch a train to the Upper West Side you have to go to Port Authority, not Times Square (or go to Times Square and then walk underground to Port Authority).
